"I'M NOT YOUR BOSS:
The Paradox of the Anarchist Superhero"
(written in 97 it lacks a perspective of both the invisibles and the authority)
"Since the invention of comic books in the 1930s, political and economic forces have conspired to keep comics a largely conservative medium. The genre of superhero comics in particular has tended to advocate a conservative, hierarchical view of human society.
New economic and creative freedom appeared in the comics industry in the 1980s, prompting the scripters of mainstream comics to experiment with political messages. In the vanguard of these innovative writers were three British comics scripters: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, and Grant Morrison.
The title character of Moore's V for Vendetta styles himself an anarchist revolutionary and indeed has antecedents in historical anarchist thinkers. Gaiman's Lord of Destruction is another example of an antiauthoritarian hero: by resigning his own divine office, he suggests that no one has a right to exercise authority over human beings. Morrison's absurdist villain Mr Nobody delivers another unique critique of the presumptions and institutions of authority. For all their brilliance, however, such comics have not supplemented their critique of social institutions with proposals as to how a reformed society might work."
(Anarchist Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2, October 1997,)
Sunday, 1 May 2005
the fraud's prayer
our market who art on earth
hallowed be thy show
thy state power come
thy will be done
on the streets as it is in work
sell us this day our daily lie
and justify us y/our property
as we submit to those that assert property relations against us
and lead us anywhere but into autonomous temptation
but deliver us from anti-heirachical initiative
for our's is the stagnation
the cop and the celebrity
forever....or never?
amen
our market who art on earth
hallowed be thy show
thy state power come
thy will be done
on the streets as it is in work
sell us this day our daily lie
and justify us y/our property
as we submit to those that assert property relations against us
and lead us anywhere but into autonomous temptation
but deliver us from anti-heirachical initiative
for our's is the stagnation
the cop and the celebrity
forever....or never?
amen
87 min Lecture by Douglas Adams given a month before his death.
It’s a speech about the environment and his book Last Chance to See.
"All my other books are lined up in the science fiction section - which I kind of wish they weren’t. I think they could be in general fiction, but I don’t think there’s a science fiction writer who doesn’t think that," Adams said.
(via growabrain)
It’s a speech about the environment and his book Last Chance to See.
"All my other books are lined up in the science fiction section - which I kind of wish they weren’t. I think they could be in general fiction, but I don’t think there’s a science fiction writer who doesn’t think that," Adams said.
(via growabrain)
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!" ..... (oscar wilde)
A painting of a gorilla with a camera is among the pictures shortlisted for this year's BP Portrait Award.
Saturday, 23 April 2005
Gas Puts Mice on Pause
Inducing hibernation in non-hibernating mammals, technique could be used to "buy patients time"
"We think this may be a latent ability that all mammals have ... potentially even humans ... and we're just harnessing it and turning it on and off, inducing a state of hibernation on demand," says study lead investigator Mark Roth.
Inducing hibernation in non-hibernating mammals, technique could be used to "buy patients time"
"We think this may be a latent ability that all mammals have ... potentially even humans ... and we're just harnessing it and turning it on and off, inducing a state of hibernation on demand," says study lead investigator Mark Roth.
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